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While small talk is the conversational appetizer in any party, it has also a steady place in more established relationships. Much family talk is small talk — comments on daily events and the news. It can be dull or lively. In Personality and Successful Living, Father James A. Magner aptly writes: The stale conversation of the family dinner table, as an example, beginning with the supposition that none of the group has anything worth while to offer, ranges from the condition of the weather to the latest scandal, and then lapses into a deadly silence or breaks out into mutual vituperation — unless definite outside interests are cultivated and introduced for discussion as part of a preconceived program (p. 131). |
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